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T-Mobile's Emergency Response Team

Disaster Zone Podcast

When asked, emergency managers will unfailingly say that the first critical infrastructure that needs to be restored after a disaster is communications. In this podcast I interview two T-Mobile subject matter experts, Rodney Cooper and Casey Muilenburg who, along with others, are responsible for the T-Mobile Emergency Response Team (ERT).

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

The role of the emergency planner and manager in the UK had been declining for about 15 years and it involved no defined career structure or incentives to professionalise. Despite the obvious need for mitigation, emergency response capability cannot be neglected. is a resounding no. My UK example, by the way, is not heresay.

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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

To combat this, FEMA and other agencies created constructs—programs, grants, assessments, doctrine, and coordination bodies—designed to help assess preparedness; support disaster response and recovery actions; enhance government capabilities through grant funding; and improve organization of emergency responses.

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Three Years Later--What did we learn from COVID?

Disaster Zone Podcast

Nathan Weed is the Chief of Resiliency and Health Security for the Washington State Department of Health Mr. Weed provides statewide leadership for the ongoing development of public health and medical emergency response capabilities and community resilience and leads emergency response teams.He

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Local mayors or chief executives should have a primary role in ensuring that arrangements are in place for emergency planning, management and response.

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Addressing Healthcare Needs in a Disaster

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we have a wide-ranging discussion with Tom Cotter, MPH, executive director of Healthcare Ready Tom brings more than a decade of global health readiness and response expertise to expand the nonprofit’s mission-driven work addressing health equity. Department of Health & Human Services since 2013.During

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Business Continuity and ‘Emergency Response’

Plan B Consulting

This week Charlie looks at the relationship between business continuity and emergency response. Within many plans that I see, there is an emergency response phase which takes place from an incident occurring to it being brought under control, and the incident no longer being a threat to ‘life and limb’.